Gorillaz Most Popular Band On MySpace In 2008

Gorillaz have topped a list of the most popular acts on MySpace this year, ahead of the likes of Coldplay, Oasis and Lily Allen.

The website has revealed its top eight most watched, most listened to and most popular acts, along with the top eight most watched videos.

In the list of most popular music acts, Gorillaz comfortably beat Bullet For My Valentine into second place, while Madonna's "4 Minutes" was the biggest video of the year, beating "Love Is Noise" by The Verve into second place.

2008's Most Popular Musical Acts on MySpace were:

Gorillaz (682,875 friends)

Bullet for My Valentine (596,885 friends)

Amy Winehouse (542,268 friends)

Coldplay (525,110 friends)

Lily Allen (462,159 friends)

MIA. (399,858 friends)

Oasis (353,484 friends)

Imogen Heap (351,484 friends)

2008's Biggest Music Videos on MySpace were:

Madonna - "4 Minutes"

The Verve - "Love Is Noise"

BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal - "Toe Jam"

Justice - "DVNO"

Oasis - "I'm Outta Time"

Dragonforce - "Heroes of Our Time"

Sigur Ros - "Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur"

The Raconteurs - "Old Enough"

Thanks for the report to Nme.com.

Comments

[SuperSamuraiGuy]

I want a new Gorillaz album

[Dextermaniac]

I had no clue Imogen Heap was so popular O.o

[bowlerhatlizard]

amy ****ing winehouse?

i know people enjoy reading up on her drug related antics but, **** me!

[reldask]

lol oasis

[popeslayer]

reflective of the populaion of myspace ****ing emo kids.
good for gorillaz and coldplay.

[radioplay]

i thought Gorillaz broke up. Am i mistaken? And good for you Gorillaz,Coldplay and Raconteurs.

[radioplay]

oh and im gonna throw this out there-i have nothing against Amy's music,i dont mind it.

[Timehbgood]

bullet for my valentine are better than whiney..

[SoftParade1967]

SuperSamuraiGuy wrote:

I want a new Gorillaz album

+1

[wheatmore]

yea um amy winehouse may be a **** person but she's still a good singer and songwriter

[bf313]

Gorillaz are amazing and i cant wait for a new album. Very happy that The Raconteurs and Oasis also made the list

[David_Bowie=GOD]

shit, I didn't even know they were still together.

Do they have a new album coming out?

[ChucklesMginty]

Niiice DragonForce on most popular videos, I hope they make some more videos soon. The guitar battle bits are awesome.

[aig91]

Checked

[edbert]

SoftParade1967 wrote:

SuperSamuraiGuy wrote:

I want a new Gorillaz album

+1

+2

[XtractionProces]

Hail to the over-rated bands (Bullet).

[TechnoJesus™]

GO GORILLAZ

they deserve an award!

[tblank]

the only good band on that list is BFMV! f**k coldplay and amy winehouse(she really needs help)but the gorillaz are pretty good, i guess they deserve it

[qotsa1998]

Interesting, seeing as how Gorillaz havent released new songs in a year or so, if you count D-Sides. I guess seeing Imogen Heap on there accounts for alot of Myspace's foreign users perhaps.

[identityxcrysis]

I haven't heard anything about them in a long time.
They seem pretty irrelevant now, I can't believe they're so high up.

[Jau_Peacecraft]

identityxcrysis wrote:

I haven't heard anything about them in a long time.
They seem pretty irrelevant now, I can't believe they're so high up.

I would hardly call a band that makes "D-Sides" irrelevant.

[.QOTSA.]

wow a whole lot of those are from UK?

[amniotic]

haha it shows how big myspace is in england

[fastlanestoner]

This is incorrect. Fastlane is the most popular band on myspace and throughout the entire universe.

[Kai07]

edbert wrote:

SoftParade1967 wrote:

SuperSamuraiGuy wrote:

I want a new Gorillaz album

+2

+ freaking 3

[DrummerMoose]

I like Gorillaz.
...
That's it. The rest are terrible. (AMY WINEHOUSE)

[BlindSilence917]

Kai07 wrote:

edbert wrote:

SoftParade1967 wrote:

SuperSamuraiGuy wrote:

I want a new Gorillaz album

+ freaking 3

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_re leases/gorillaz_work_on_new_album.html

There ya go! Sometime around March 21st.

Oh...+4 btw. lol

[daytripper75]

this actually is surprising. i like the Gorillaz, so this is pretty cool.

[zachmcpeak1012]

BULLET! BULLET! BULLET!

[MedicreDemon]

I like lily allen....she's pretty cute.

[awesomeness]

zachmcpeak1012 wrote:

BULLET! BULLET! BULLET!

gorillaz are awesome too. oasis.. ehh. decent. same with coldplay.

[awesomeness]

grrr. what happened to my +1??

zachmcpeak1012 wrote:

BULLET! BULLET! BULLET!

+1

[vIsIbleNoIsE]

awesome - better gorillaz than any other single band listed there

[FuZzY(aus)]

ahahah the dragonforce vid is sooo funny

[sneyob]

Gorillaz?

I thought they wrote one song then went away.

This is truly suprising

[Spoony_Bard]

Gorillaz is cool, but what did they do this year to get so many visits?

[thereverendsoup]

tblank wrote:

the only good band on that list is BFMV!

This is the funniest thing I've read all day.

Every band on this list is pretty weak, but BFMV is the worst of them.

[Salvial]

Glad to see the Sigur Ros video there.

[thereverendsoup]

Salvial wrote:

Glad to see the Sigur Ros video there.

Yeah. I wish they would sort of evolve as a band a bit from album to album, but at least people on MySpace are listening to something tolerable.

[uhh_me?]

checked.

[huevos]

Gorillaz and Sigur Ros are the only decent bands.
Everything else is overrated, commercial garbage.
That is not a matter of opinion or perspective, it is a simple fact (well, the commercial garbage part).

[whiplash13]

We're talking about Myspace! Did anyone actually expect any good bands to be on the list?

[TLO421]

radioplay wrote:

i thought Gorillaz broke up. Am i mistaken? And good for you Gorillaz,Coldplay and Raconteurs.

nah didnt break up... but they just like became a side project while damon albarn worked on blur... and then they were gunna make a final album which would be a sountrack to the movie but they stopped that idea... and now they r just making a studio album... possibly thier last... cuz they just are kinda too nonchalant about it

[XxDre09xX]

perhaps, whiplash :/

[redhotsexmagic]

gorillaz=awesome.

[Ktool The Girth]

huevos wrote:

Gorillaz and Sigur Ros are the only decent bands.
Everything else is overrated, commercial garbage.
That is not a matter of opinion or perspective, it is a simple fact (well, the commercial garbage part).

No, it is an opinion.

[GUNIT!]

sneyob wrote:
Gorillaz?

I thought they wrote one song then went away.

This is truly suprising

FAIL.

[Vauxite]

GNR has 452,635
How come they're not on there?

[benjibreeg]

dizzee rascal? is that the actual name of an artist?

i didnt know gorillaz still existed!

[rancidryan]

the gorillaz?

how there awful!

[Crillz]

I wouldn't have thought Gorillaz were doin a new album, what with the blur reunion and all

[b4t3man]

I had no idea BFMV were that popular...

[Sam_Prillaman]

hey huevos: just because you don't like a certain band doesn't mean it's "corporate garbage", that's just ignorant

as for the other people railing on bands: are you really upset enough that you'll never be that successful that you have to bash them to make yourself feel better?

[The_Fuzz22]

I love the people saying Gorillaz as a "they". As in "they" broke up etc
It's a one man band: Damon Albarn (and to some extent Jamie Hewlett as he does the art) he's just got lots of people helping to contribute is all.

Anyway I'm not having a go, I just find it quite amusing. I'm looking forward to the new Gorillaz album, be interesting to see what Albarn can come up with what with everything else he's got going on at the moment.
Also looking forward to the Blur reunion